• Publication: The Fantastic ImaginationPublication Record # 163861
• Editors: Robert H. Boyer, Kenneth J. Zahorski
• Date: 1977-02-00
• ISBN: 0-380-00956-0 [978-0-380-00956-5]
• Publisher: Avon
• Price: $2.25
• Pages: ix+325
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • "First Avon Printing, February 1977"; no number line
  • The artist is not credited, no visible signature
  • Contento fails to list this title, as does CLute/Nicholls
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 252
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 2825108
  • Reginald-3: 18402

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Introduction (The Fantastic Imagination) • essay by Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski
• 9 • The Elves • (1977) • novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Die Elfen 1812) [as by Johann Ludwig Tieck]
• 33 • The Sword of Welleran • (1908) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 51 • The Light Princess • juvenile • (1864) • novelette by George MacDonald
• 101 • The Grove of Ashtaroth • (1910) • novelette by John Buchan
• 131 • The Music from Behind the Moon • [Biography of the Life of Manuel • 4.1] • (1926) • novelette by James Branch Cabell
• 165 • The Accommodating Circumstance • (1887) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 185 • The Peach Tree • (1929) • short story by H. E. Bates
• 199 • The Loquacious Goblin • (1961) • short story by
  Александр Грин^?Alexander Grin
  Aleksandr Grin
  (trans. of
  Словоохотливый домовой^?Slovookhotlivyy domovoy
  1923) [as by Alexander Grin]
• 208 • Riddles in the Dark • (1972) • short story by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 231 • The Magician's Book • (1952) • short fiction by C. S. Lewis
• 241 • The Dufflepuds Made Happy • (1952) • short fiction by C. S. Lewis
• 253 • The Tall One • (1962) • short story by Mark Van Doren
• 265 • The Foundling • juvenile • [The Prydain Chronicles / Taran] • (1973) • short story by Lloyd Alexander
• 277 • Come Lady Death • (1963) • short story by Peter S. Beagle
• 299 • The Rule of Names • [Earthsea Cycle] • (1964) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 313 • Beliard • (1974) • short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner